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Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order-Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Address: To the Text and Teaching Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 12, 1985